Neuroscience

Video: Scientists visualize pain's pathway

The lab of Stephen Waxman, Bridget M. Flaherty Professor of Neurology and of Neuroscience, has identified the key role of sodium channels arrayed on nerve cells in experience of pain.

Oncology & Cancer

A new class of drugs aims to exploit cancer cells' weaknesses

In recent years, new cancer treatments have brought hope to people who once had limited options. But for others, the wait for an effective drug continues. Now on the horizon is a new generation of drugs based on a concept ...

Cardiology

Stem cell therapy could help mend the youngest of broken hearts

Researchers have shown stem cells from the umbilical cord may hold the key to a new generation of graft and could reduce the number of surgeries required to treat young children born with certain types of congenital heart ...

Pediatrics

Food research prevents illness in infants

Associate Professor Dereck Chatterton at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen has spent more than 15 years carrying out research in order to improve infant formula for children who cannot be breastfed. ...

Medications

Universal flu vaccine designed by scientists

An international team of scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to protect against future global pandemics that could kill millions.

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